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Allen Kim

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Allen Kim's personal blog at allenkim67.github.io covers programming. Since 2016, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “How to make your own BitTorrent client with Node.js”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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6mentions?
5HN people?
2016–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link Allen Kim's step-by-step BitTorrent client tutorials, in JavaScript and Node.js, as walkthroughs for building a BitTorrent client from scratch.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. How to make your own BitTorrent client with Node.js
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-07-05
  2. /programming/2016/05/04/how-to-make-your-own-bittorrent-client.html
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-05

What Hacker News says?

  1. peterkelly · 2020-01-05Recommends
    Here's a pretty good one in JavaScript: https://allenkim67.github.io/programming/2016/05/04/how-to-m...

    Comment linking /programming/2016/05/04/how-to-make-your-own-bittorrent-client.html

    on “Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go”
  2. Submitted How to make your own BitTorrent client with Node.js as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  3. If anyone is interested in a similar writeup for node.js check out my tutorial here: http://allenkim67.github.io/bittorrent/2016/05/04/how-to-mak...

    Comment linking /bittorrent/2016/05/04/how-to-make-your-own-bittorrent-client.html

    on “Building a BitTorrent client from scratch in C#”
  4. Submitted Adding SSL to Express for Free as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. If anyone is interested in a similar writeup for a bittorrrent client for node.js, check out my tutorial here: http://allenkim67.github.io/bittorrent/2016/05/04/how-to-mak...

    Comment linking /bittorrent/2016/05/04/how-to-make-your-own-bittorrent-client.html

    on “How to Write a BitTorrent Client, Part 1”
  6. what's with the sign in required, is this a paid tutorial? Here are some free tutorials: JS - https://allenkim67.github.io/programming/2016/05/04/how-to-m... GO - https://blog.jse.li/posts/torrent/ Python - https://markuseliasson.se/article/bittorrent-in-python/

    Comment linking /programming/2016/05/04/how-to-make-your-own-bittorrent-client.html

    on “Build Your Own BitTorrent”

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